Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whereas Mr. Baldwin has been pleasantly vague about World economic recovery by the lifting of trade barriers some day, Mr. Chamberlain declared : "All indications are that we have left free trade behind forever, or until the whole world agrees to abolish tariffs on imports, which comes to pretty much the same thing...
...cynicism, came just before two epochal events. Suddenly the tariffs and quotas of France were slashed, and this was followed even more unexpectedly by Benito Mussolini with similar action on behalf of Italy (see p. 24). Overnight on the international scene new life was breathed into the principle of Free Trade, and there was a wild scramble by His Majesty's Government to readjust their ideas and Mr. Chamberlain's. To Geneva this week hurried the Chancellor's most distinguished subordinate, Mr. William Shepherd ("Shakespeare") Morrison. In the only speech to the current League Assembly which...
...free fight had meanwhile begun, with Communists and Jews strewing marbles in the street to make the horses of mounted police lose their footing. After two hours of fisticuffs, five Fascists and 95 antiFascists were arrested, 64 persons had to be hospitalized, 204 suffered lesser hurts and Sir Oswald Mosley's ungrateful cohorts dispersed jeering: "Jewboy Simon's got the wind up!" Sir Oswald's canceled parade was described by Communists as "the most humiliating defeat ever suffered by any figure in British politics...
...nights of aggressive debate, the Senate and Chamber of France finally authorized the radical Cabinet of Premier Leon Blum to reduce the value of the French franc 30% last week, but at every stage of the debate Socialist Blum was served notice that Parliament had given him no monetary free hand such as the U. S. Congress gave President Roosevelt at the time the dollar was devalued (TIME...
...mild-mannered, stoop-shouldered mathematics professor of Wisconsin University is blissfully married, and, he thinks, free to skip away with his jovial wife to the Isle of Capri, there to write a book about mathematics, but tied up in some symbolical way with paper dolls. The reason why the couple feel so jubilantly footloose is that they have married off two of their daughters, and are about to place the third. But the reversal is sudden and through: two of the daughters come stalking home, and the third one quarrels with her beau...